Accent Expert Breaks Down 6 Fictional Languages From Film & TV
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Date: 2022-07-06
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Sagamore
For those curious about the English R bit - there are only a few other languages with a similar sound. They include Faroese, Albanian, Mandarin, and (southern) Vietnamese, as well as Dutch but in Dutch it's only pronounced that way when it is before a consonant or at the end of a word. However, none of these are exactly the same. In Faroese and Mandarin it approaches a fricative, in Albanian and Vietnamese it's inconsistent and there are several pronunciations (even though the Englishlike one is the most common, and the Dutch one is almost -more American than American English- in a way I can't describe - they pronounce it so intensely that it feels like it almost becomes its own syllable.
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For those curious about the English R bit - there are only a few other languages with a similar sound. They include Faroese, Albanian, Mandarin, and (southern) Vietnamese, as well as Dutch but in Dutch it's only pronounced that way when it is before a consonant or at the end of a word. However, none of these are exactly the same. In Faroese and Mandarin it approaches a fricative, in Albanian and Vietnamese it's inconsistent and there are several pronunciations (even though the Englishlike one is the most common, and the Dutch one is almost -more American than American English- in a way I can't describe - they pronounce it so intensely that it feels like it almost becomes its own syllable.
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Michelle
Please watch a BBC short drama/documentary that aired in 1998! Called 'Twockers'. it follows a group of young delinquents robbing sheds, setting bonfires, smoking cigs and generally getting up to mischief. They speak a sort of made up language that is is English with egg added on to each syllable, when i was 15 me and my friends saw the film and picked it up and would speak it all the time to discuss stuff we didn't want adults to hear (we thought it was so cool -). I've lost track of my 'eggy' speaking friends over the years but me and my brother still do it today occasionally --
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Please watch a BBC short drama/documentary that aired in 1998! Called 'Twockers'. it follows a group of young delinquents robbing sheds, setting bonfires, smoking cigs and generally getting up to mischief. They speak a sort of made up language that is is English with egg added on to each syllable, when i was 15 me and my friends saw the film and picked it up and would speak it all the time to discuss stuff we didn't want adults to hear (we thought it was so cool -). I've lost track of my 'eggy' speaking friends over the years but me and my brother still do it today occasionally --
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Jaco
I really struggle with the American English -r-, -three- and -supernatural- are difficult, also what you do to your -t-s like in -literal-, I can't say it, so I opt in for the more British way of saying stuff (which would be technically be more correct for me, because my country was a British colony) so I'll say it as litral
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I really struggle with the American English -r-, -three- and -supernatural- are difficult, also what you do to your -t-s like in -literal-, I can't say it, so I opt in for the more British way of saying stuff (which would be technically be more correct for me, because my country was a British colony) so I'll say it as litral
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queen
19: 05 the female heptopod speech sounds exactly the way Ray Harryhausen's depiction of Medusa sounded in the movie Clash of the Titans (80s version of course) and she freaked me out when I was a small child. that sounds was so unnatural to my ears and it's exactly what I heard when she was -speaking-
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19: 05 the female heptopod speech sounds exactly the way Ray Harryhausen's depiction of Medusa sounded in the movie Clash of the Titans (80s version of course) and she freaked me out when I was a small child. that sounds was so unnatural to my ears and it's exactly what I heard when she was -speaking-
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Joseph
he clearly has very littler understanding and knowledge of Asian languages, just saying. And a lot of these conlangs are just made by (mostly English-speaking) white people appropriating how people of colour speak. Our day to day speech seems to be so fascinating to the white people lol
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he clearly has very littler understanding and knowledge of Asian languages, just saying. And a lot of these conlangs are just made by (mostly English-speaking) white people appropriating how people of colour speak. Our day to day speech seems to be so fascinating to the white people lol
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kim
I had a friend attempt to teach me Dutch, and that High Valyrian short u sound-which Erik describes as an -ee sounds with the lips rounding forward--was my biggest stumbling block. (ex. huis or house) We Americans just don't have an ear for the many vowel sounds of the world.
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I had a friend attempt to teach me Dutch, and that High Valyrian short u sound-which Erik describes as an -ee sounds with the lips rounding forward--was my biggest stumbling block. (ex. huis or house) We Americans just don't have an ear for the many vowel sounds of the world.
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Shycat
-Snakes don't have lips or vocal folds- I mean they also don't have ears, all snakes are deaf, a verbal language would be lost on them lol. That's on J. K. though. I think it's amazing the amount of thought they went into constructing the way it sounds for the tv.
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-Snakes don't have lips or vocal folds- I mean they also don't have ears, all snakes are deaf, a verbal language would be lost on them lol. That's on J. K. though. I think it's amazing the amount of thought they went into constructing the way it sounds for the tv.
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Buntokki
Also R its not really an ER sound, its almost like a motorcycle sound. Er, which is an R-controlled vowel will say ER. We dont say ERabbit we say, Rrrrrabbit. I teach ELA and learned that THIS year and I-m almost 30 LMAO.
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Also R its not really an ER sound, its almost like a motorcycle sound. Er, which is an R-controlled vowel will say ER. We dont say ERabbit we say, Rrrrrabbit. I teach ELA and learned that THIS year and I-m almost 30 LMAO.
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Guoji
Mandarin with Beijing accent has a lot of hard rolling -R- sound and people who speak can usually do American English -R- pretty naturally. However it is true that not all people speak mandarin find it natural to speak
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Mandarin with Beijing accent has a lot of hard rolling -R- sound and people who speak can usually do American English -R- pretty naturally. However it is true that not all people speak mandarin find it natural to speak
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Anna
Is he confusing Quenya and Sindarin? Legolas speaks Sindarin, of course, but I would expect Arwen to speak Quenya. And it is Quenya whose inspiration was Finnish, not Sindarin - Sindarin is the one that sounds Welsh.
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Is he confusing Quenya and Sindarin? Legolas speaks Sindarin, of course, but I would expect Arwen to speak Quenya. And it is Quenya whose inspiration was Finnish, not Sindarin - Sindarin is the one that sounds Welsh.
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